I was in Cortona in the evening of August 16, the eighth leg of my Vespatour 2006, and while I was talking with a guy I met at the hostel he recommended me to visit Arezzo, a place I didn’t plan to visit.
When he told me that they filmed my favorite movie there, Life is beautiful by Benigni, and that there were panels marking the places where they filmed the scenes, I had no more hesitations and I spent the following day in that magic town.
The first picture shows Piazza Grande in which maybe someone will recognize the window of the famous scene “Maria, throw down the keys!”.
The second one is where Guido (Benigni) hit Dora (Braschi) while he was going by bicycle and then he greet her with the famous sentence “Buongiorno Principessa!“, while the third one is the park near the Cathedral where I rested for some time to write a postcard, the second of the only two ones I sent during the journey, a postcard beginning with that sentence since it was for a very special girl.
The other 70 pictures of the day I spent in Arezzo are in the twelfth gallery of the Vespatour 2006.

     

PS: On that postcard I marked down the wrong window in Piazza Grande. I did notice that when I was back home and watched “Life is beautiful” again…